This study is an attempt to perform a valency analysis of two Russian
constructions which differ only on the suprasegmental level: the noun
phrase knig pjat' (‘approximately five books’) and the sentence Knig –
pjat' ...

Today, all four Kola Sami languages are seriously endangered by a language shift from Sami to Russian. However, a language revitalisation
process has started. Particularly the Kildin Sami language community in Lovozero ...

The aim of this paper is to present diachronic changes in terms of the conditions of first language acquisition. Grammars, seen as mental organs, may change between two generations. A change is initiated when (a population ...

This paper examines the problem of selectional ‘matching’ effects in Bengali V-V complex predicates, and English denominal verbs within the context of a decompositional syntax/semantics for verbal meaning and a theory of ...

In this paper, I revisit the licensing and interpretation of instrumental case-marked nominals in Hindi/Urdu causative constructions to argue against the hypothesis that the se-marked phrase corresponds to a demoted agent. ...

All Germanic languages make extensive use of verb-particle combinations (known as separable-prefix verbs in the OV languages). I show some basic differences here distinguishing the Scandinavian type from the OV West Germanic ...

All Germanic languages make extensive use of verb-particle combinations (known as separable-prefix verbs in the OV languages). I show some basic differences here distinguishing the Scandinavian type from the OV West Germanic ...

What is a possible word in a language? Does an idealized cognitive model exist in a speakers’ grammar or only in the imagination of linguists? What does it mean to be “theoretically possible”? The advent of large electronic ...

Sometimes languages present speakers with choices among rival forms, such as the Russian forms ostrič’ vs. obstrič’ ‘cut hair’ and proniknuv vs. pronikši ‘having penetrated’. The choice of a given form is often influenced ...

Brdar and Brdar-Szabó (this volume) offer a critique of Janda (2011). Janda (2011) found that the same cognitive strategy that facilitates metonymy, namely use of a conceptual source to access a target, can also be invoked ...